National Survey of Access to Medical Care, 1982 (ICPSR 8244)

Citation

Andersen, Ronald M., and Aday, Lu Ann. National Survey of Access to Medical Care, 1982. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08244.v1

Summary

The purpose of this study, which served to update information
available from previous Center for Health Administration Studies/National
Opinion Research Center surveys in 1953, 1958, 1963, 1970, and 1976, was to
provide current data on the accessibility of medical care for the United
States population. The survey collected information on usual sources of
medical care, sources of medical care utilized, problems associated with
access to sources of care, satisfaction with medical services received,
utilization of medical diagnostic procedures, health insurance coverage,
episodes of illness, and other health-related issues. Additional information
collected by the survey includes household composition, age, sex, income,
race, education, employment status, and occupation.

Citation

Andersen, Ronald M., and Aday, Lu Ann. National Survey of Access to Medical Care, 1982. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08244.v1

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Time Period(s)

1982

Date of Collection

1982

Data Collection Notes

The documentation for this collection includes the codebook,
a file with frequencies and univariate statistics, and an appendix
comprising additional documentation and the questionnaires. The codebook and
frequencies file are provided as ASCII text files and Portable Document
Format (PDF) files. The appendix is provided only as a PDF file.

Universe

Data Source

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1984-07-12

Version Date

2005-11-04

Version History

2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions.

1999-02-03 All documentation is now available as PDF files.
In addition, the SPSS data definition statements have been revised to
be compatible with recent versions of SPSS.

Notes

The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented.